Monday, February 11th 2019
AMD to Unlock Professional Features for Radeon VII to Blunt RTX 2080's Ray-tracing Edge
To add value and give it a feature-set edge over the GeForce RTX 2080, AMD is reportedly preparing to unlock several professional graphics features for the Radeon VII that are otherwise exclusive to Radeon Pro series graphics cards. These features will be released by simply adding Radeon VII support to the upcoming Radeon Pro 19.Q1 software suite. You uninstall your Radeon Adrenalin 2019 Edition drivers and replace them with the Radeon Pro 19.Q1 drivers to access pro features.
These include access to ProRender, certifications for various 3D, CAD, and CGI suites, SecureMI security, enterprise virtualization, and more. Over 320 professional applications are certified for the Radeon Pro 19.Q1 drivers, all of which will seamlessly run on the Radeon VII. AMD will also introduce a feature that lets you switch between the Radeon Pro and Radeon Adrenalin drivers on-the-fly (without needing reboots), so you don't lose your ability to play the latest games with day-one optimizations from AMD. These drivers will make the Radeon VII an incredible value in the enterprise space, as the GPU offers performance rivaling professional graphics cards priced well north of $3,000. It also blunts the feature-set edge the RTX 2080 holds over the Radeon VII.
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hardwareLUXX
These include access to ProRender, certifications for various 3D, CAD, and CGI suites, SecureMI security, enterprise virtualization, and more. Over 320 professional applications are certified for the Radeon Pro 19.Q1 drivers, all of which will seamlessly run on the Radeon VII. AMD will also introduce a feature that lets you switch between the Radeon Pro and Radeon Adrenalin drivers on-the-fly (without needing reboots), so you don't lose your ability to play the latest games with day-one optimizations from AMD. These drivers will make the Radeon VII an incredible value in the enterprise space, as the GPU offers performance rivaling professional graphics cards priced well north of $3,000. It also blunts the feature-set edge the RTX 2080 holds over the Radeon VII.
69 Comments on AMD to Unlock Professional Features for Radeon VII to Blunt RTX 2080's Ray-tracing Edge
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Anywho...it looks like sweet redemption for me. Turns out I was right about it basically being an MI50. I was thinking you'd need to flash the BIOS to be able to run the Pro drivers to make it act like one though. Apparently not...
What comes next might be reminiscent of the mining craze with Vega. With the price for a Radeon VII skyrocketing. As professionals, wanting to get their hands on one for a much lower cost than the MI50(and willing to pay considerably more for a Radeon VII as a result), drastically increase the demand for one. Gamers probably should have got one while the getting was good. Because unlike the mining scenario, professionals probably won't be selling them used any time soon. And even when they do, not likely for cheap either.
No Pcie4 or ring bus IF link.
And pro-render is not all the different compute modes which I am curious on their functionality.
As I said a Prosumer card like Radeon Pro/FireGL of yesterday.Bitter much, don't be a r3+@#
I wonder, will it mine more or not? Someone test it! :D
It really hasn't been good for a while, hopefully with the 7nm nvidia releases the perfromance will bump up at a reasonable price.
at least there is more then two apps that use DP, eh.